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Baby Bird

This small personage was squeaking and agitating and giving me the eye outside out conservatory/lean-to, I was alarmed for the wee bird, but when I went out it had disappeared. Hope it survives, to join the female blackbird who crashed against our window in the night and knocked out all the flesh and feathers on the back of her head, and the blackbird without a tail, whom I’ve noticed for a couple of years now, both haunting the bird table. Whenever I go out into the garden, they appear, sometimes accompanying me up to the path to the vegetable garden.

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We have a garden full, blue tits, house sparrows, blackbirds and a robin. I currently have bike inner tubes draped over tree branches to deter the cats. Hose is aimed and ready. Mine was rather surprised when he got a dousing the other day.

Brilliant hose technology. We have local cats who used to invade the garden, but we chase them off, and they have been less frequent recently. I love cats, but they don’t go with birds…. so we are sticking with birds. I had a jackdaw come to the bird table, for the first time, a few days ago. Today he arrived with three of his mates!

Hi Cara, I haven’t been over your way for awhile. Thank you for all your likes on Art Rat. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to give 100% to more than one thing and my priority is my art so blogging sits on the side waiting to be asked to dance 🙂
I’m here to take a stroll around to see what you’ve been up to.
That’s a very sad little bird.
I put mandala stickers on my windows to stop the bird crashes. They need to see something there to warn them except transparent glass.

The blackbird that hit the glass did it late at night. I can’t think how she survived with such an injury, when birds can be so frail. A great idea to put mandala stickers on the glass. I think the sad little bird is probably OK, it isn’t lying around in a sad heap of fluffy twigs, anyway. It was just the way it was squawking at me through the glass was so poignant. Look forward to seeing what you do put up on your website, it is a pleasure to tune into your creations.

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I’m Cara, and I live in Coldstream, in the Scottish Borders As well as writing and illustrating books for children I have recently been painting on canvas, in my octagonal studio (aka The Tardis) which inhabits a corner of the vegetable garden. My work for children has been published in several countries, and translated into different languages. My favourite form at the moment is the picture book, but I have also had published poetry, children’s novels, and illustrations for the work of other authors. I go out most days with my camera and create blog entries from the results. Some of the pictures I take will be used as background material for the picture book which I am working on at the moment. My son Matty set up this WordPress blog for me, and it has added a dimension to my life which surprises me. It is also interesting and inspiring to read the blogs of other people from different parts of the world, and to look at their sometimes fascinating pictures.